The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

I am really astonished at the amount of work we do. The only trouble here, they wont [sic] let us study enough. I think few men in college do as much as we do here.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.